God is not great : how religion poisons everything, Christopher Hitchens, (electronic resource)

The Resource God is not great : how religion poisons everything, Christopher Hitchens, (electronic resource)

God is not great : how religion poisons everything, Christopher Hitchens, (electronic resource)

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Putting it mildly -- Religion kills -- A short digression on the pig; or, Why Heaven hates ham -- A note on health, to which religion can be hazardous -- The metaphysical claims of religion are false -- Arguments from design -- Revelation: the nightmare of the "Old" Testament -- The "New" Testament exceeds the evil of the "Old" one -- The Koran is borrowed from both Jewish and Christian myths -- The tawdriness of the miraculous and the decline of Hell -- "The lowly stamp of their origin": religion's corrupt beginnings -- A coda: how religions end -- Does religion make people behave better? -- There is no "Eastern" solution -- Religion as an original sin -- Is religion child abuse? -- An objection anticipated: the last-ditch "case" against secularism -- A finer tradition: the resistance of the rational -- In conclusion: the need for a new enlightenment

Control code

ocn135893652

Dimensions

24 cm.

Dimensions

unknown

Edition

1st ed.

Extent

307 p.

Form of item

online

Isbn

9780446195331

Isbn Type

(electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction.

Specific material designation

remote

Stock number

5E42E9A1-72CF-4537-9E16-C1DBD5AE7FF4

System control number

(OCoLC)135893652

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God is not great : how religion poisons everything, Christopher Hitchens, (electronic resource)

Putting it mildly -- Religion kills -- A short digression on the pig; or, Why Heaven hates ham -- A note on health, to which religion can be hazardous -- The metaphysical claims of religion are false -- Arguments from design -- Revelation: the nightmare of the "Old" Testament -- The "New" Testament exceeds the evil of the "Old" one -- The Koran is borrowed from both Jewish and Christian myths -- The tawdriness of the miraculous and the decline of Hell -- "The lowly stamp of their origin": religion's corrupt beginnings -- A coda: how religions end -- Does religion make people behave better? -- There is no "Eastern" solution -- Religion as an original sin -- Is religion child abuse? -- An objection anticipated: the last-ditch "case" against secularism -- A finer tradition: the resistance of the rational -- In conclusion: the need for a new enlightenment